photo by Daniel Schäfer / Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth © Rashid Johnson.

'Seven Rooms and a Garden' Explores Rashid Johnson's Conversational Works

Written by Josie McNeill by Josie McNeill

The Moderna Museet’s upcoming exhibition, ‘Seven Rooms and a Garden,’ explores the conversational yet confrontational works of artist and filmmaker Rashid Johnson.

Seven Rooms and a Garden’ is set to be open from September 30, 2023 to September 8, 2024.

The exhibit, as indicated by its name, will consist of rooms and a garden that explore the artist’s personal, political, and historical relationships through art.

Johnson is an artist from Chicago known for drawing from his own biography, as well as historical events, to produce photographs, paintings, film, performances, and sculptures that comment on the state of being.

Johnson, a conceptual post-Black artist, is best known for his “Anxious Men” series in which he etched out faces of Black people in black soap and wax on tile.